GE Link LED Light and Wink HUB Teardown
Last week I saw that Home Depot was running a deal on the new GE Link LED lights and a Wink hub which can control them. The deal was that if you buy 2 of the GE Link LED lights, you can buy the Wink home automation HUB for $20, instead of the normal $50 […]
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High Density WS2812B Panel Project
Posted on March 16th, 2014 in Arduino, Custom Projects, DIY Equipment, Electronics, LEDs, Lighting, Teensy, Video
The WS2812B RGB LED chip is a wonderful little device. It contains Red, Green and Blue LED elements and also a WS2811 RGB LED driver. The chip has only 4 pins. Power, Ground, Data In and Data Out and can easily be chained to another chip. With enough of these chips chained together your can […]
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New Development Toy
I just picked up a new development toy, the Teensy 3.1. This thing looks pretty awesome, and it’s compatible with the Arduino 1.0.5 IDE which is great for me. The Teensy 3.1 has a lot of great features that lends itself to being used in my projects. Just the pinout on the device shows that […]
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Low Cost Digital Microscope
With some of my other projects I’m working with fairly small electronics components so I ordered a low-cost digital microscope off of eBay. I paid about $40 for a 0-500x digital microscope. It’s really 0-400x with ‘digital zoom’, a worthless feature but otherwise it’s a pretty cool tool and toy for what it is. The […]
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Making Night Blades for R/C Helicopter
I’ve been thinking of making night blades for my R/C helicopter. Back in 2003 I made a set of wooden night blades for my Raptor 60 using RGB (Red-Green-Blue) LEDs and an Atmel AVR micro-controller to make them change colors and shift patterns. The blades were pretty simple but they worked. I even slapped together […]
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